We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on
new results and methods. The review is given structure by a novel decomposition linking …

This essay reviews what we currently know about the environmental consequences of
economic growth and international trade. Using a unified framework, we critically review …

We seek to contribute to the debate over globalization and the environment by asking: What
is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? We take specific …

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking
than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is …

This note reestimates Grossman and Krueger's (1993) SO2 emissions regression including
regressors to capture the effects of scale, trade and trade policy. Several new results are …

This paper argues that pollution-intensive sectors may be subject to opposing forces of
comparative advantage since these sectors are also typically capital intensive, yet regions …

Some scholars argue that trade liberalization results in the 'outsourcing'of pollution to
pollution havens, and this may explain the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve …

This paper introduces the concept of a 'pollution terms of trade'index. It measures the
environmental gains or losses that a country sustains from engaging in international trade …

This chapter complements the results of the less rigorous location of industry studies by
providing an empirical test of the hypothesis that stringent environmental policy has caused …

The relationship between trade liberalisation and the environment has been the subject of a
growing body of literature in recent years. One particular focus of attention has been whether …